Energy

Is it possible to produce natural gas with biomass or generate power by storing hydrogen in miniscule nanotubes? What difference does it make if you run your car on natural gas instead of diesel? And what happens when the world’s oil stocks run out in 30 years? These and many other questions are answered in Groningen.

Groningen is a leading knowledge centre for a wide range of energy-related themes such as natural gas transmission and infrastructure, underground gas and CO2 storage, the operation of the international energy and gas markets, the international transition and climate policy and decentralised power generation.

Having Gasunie and NAM among its companies makes Groningen one of the global energy market’s biggest players. But the whole of the North is steadily developing into the Netherlands’ energy hot spot. There is more space, more wind and – most important of all – a huge amount of gas, gas trading and gas infrastructure. And all of that complemented with top-quality knowledge and excellent partnerships between public and private organisations. It is not for nothing that they took ‘Energy Valley’ as the name for the range of all the energy and energy research initiatives.

More information:

Under the Energy Valley banner public and private organisations have combined forces to extend the energy activities in the North of the Netherlands into a nationally and internationally significant cluster. The aim of this is to strengthen the economy and the employment situation in the North by making optimum use of the energy activities: www.energyvalley.nl

Gasunie is responsible for the management, the operation and the development of the national gas transmission network: www.gasunie.nl

Gasunie Trade & Supply is an international trading company in natural gas, operating on the European energy market with the Netherlands as its home market and with a significant share in the national power supply. The company exports natural gas to six other European countries and is the second largest in Europe in terms of volume (after the Russian Gazprom): www.gasuniegas.nl

Essent concentrates on the production, transport, trading and supply of gas and electricity: www.essent.nl

NAM is the Netherlands’ biggest gas producer. NAM produces around 50 billion m3 of gas a year. Slightly more than half of that gas (27 billion m3) is drawn from Groningen’s gas field. NAM provides for around 75 per cent of the Netherlands’ overall gas production: www.nam.nl

Noo®dZakelijk is an informative, varied and creatively organised business-to-business programme for the business-oriented reader and sets out the developments and innovative strength of business life in the North of the Netherlands. The edition on energy is available on the website of the Northern Development Agency (NOM) www.nom.nl

Not all of these sites are in English!